cathyvv

I love it! Bib blocks make delivery of a quilt to a special loved one so much faster!

starshine

I love that you used a block representative of his name-Clays Choice! My first thought since you mentioned "make sashing that would resemble intersections of roads" was to quilt white or yellow center lines like in a road way( you could also use some fabric paint and a foam brush to paint the strips and quilt on each side of them). Then reading through the posts I also like the idea of quilting road sign and stop sign shapes in the intersections. Maybe also quilting a few car shapes along some of the road. If you like the suggestion of the clay's blocks looking like propellers you could do some cloud shapes in some areas of the blocks. Also like the other suggestions for the alternate blocks-echo or crosshatching.
I'm sure everyone is right He will LOVE it because it is for him from you.

LindaMRB

Yeah a kid's sense of color is way different from an adult's who's been told (through the media) what goes together and what doesn't. Looks fine to me, even taking into consideration my monitor versus yours. He'll love it. maybe it'll be worn out with use and love before he gets old enough to notice anything and then he'll just remember his grandma.

zozee

I like it! And so will you after quilting, washing it and seeing how the dryer works magic on it. Depending on your courage ( and what a great place to build that with practice ) is stitch in the ditch on the straight lined parts and fill in woth circles of various size in the white space around pinwheels, and do stippling inside the car blocks.

Rose Bagwell

He will love it, turn out great. He will probably remember this quilt for a long time. As far as the intersections on the road, works out fine, imagine him running a little car down each and every road, you have given him a quilt and a playground for his cars.

boykinsmommy

Ok, my two cents!


It looks great! You are being toocritical of yourself. I really love the cars and the choice for theother blocks....perfect name choice AND it does look like propellers! Your Clay's blocks look fantastic, your points are excellent! What'snot to love about this???? I think the colors all go togetherperfectly.


For all over quilting, since you arenew to FMQ, you could combine some of the ideas here and do a stitchin the ditch on the Clay's blocks and then do a stipple on the cars. I wouldn't worry about heavily quilting...I made my first quilt formy son, hand tied it and it survived quite a few washings as it washanded down to his little brother for a while. Still has heldtogether!


Practice on a spare sandwich beforeputting your quilt through. Good luck and post some pics when you'vecompleted it!


And stop being so harsh on yourself! It looks wonderful!

boykinsmommy

Ok, my 11 yr old just saw it and he thinks it's awesome! So there you have it!

matraina

I think your quilt is very pretty.

Taughtby Grandma

I like it and I think your grandson is going to love it. I would meander all over for the quilting.

Luv Quilts and Cats

I think your quilt looks great! Your grandson is going to love having his very own quilt. As for quilting it, I think I would do an all over design like a stipple.